Book
Neff K. Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself. New York: William Morrow; 2011. 305 p.
Why we cite it
The popular book that brought Neff’s self-compassion research to a general readership. (Two citation metrics were removed here, 2026-09-02, card 6NM98H — ”approximately 224 Semantic Scholar citations” and ”Neff’s overall citation count exceeding 50,000″. Neither is checkable from anything this library holds, both only grow, and the second sizes the book by its author’s whole career, which is a different quantity than the one the sentence claimed to be about.) Translates over a decade of peer-reviewed research into an accessible framework arguing that self-compassion is more effective than self-criticism for motivation, emotional resilience, and sustained behavior change. Referenced by 12 files in this corpus — used extensively as further reading across self-compassion, shame, guilt, and self-talk companions.
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